Rover engines and you....

Alright, 94 Rover 416/216's came with Honda motors in them (D16A9's...?)

The same year Rovers (420's) came with 2.0t's in them (rated at 230bhp).

I've seen the Rover 216's with B16 swaps. Was just wondering if anyone had seen/heard of someone swapping one of these into one of our EG's or something. I know its facing the wrong way, but the chassis are the same (I think)..the bodypanels are anyway

Rover sourced out all their car shit for decades. They still, to a degree, do.

What I want to know is how Rover backed up it's 80s claim to develop "Cars with more torque, where you use it more often". I wanna how they made that claim with Honda engines.

I have a feeling that the designs are the same, but all of the tolerances and gearing is different. I'm working on this theory. Unfortunately, the people in the know don't give a crap about some yank sending them an email.

In other countries they don't speak english. They don't know what "rights are" and they mostly can't read a free media. They also - and this may come as a surprise - Don't have our cars The Leyland Rover group (Land Rover, Original Range Rover, Leyland/Austin Cooper and the car segment, "Rover") is a company over there in England. Just like US companies, they decide that if they can licence someone else's design and sell it at a profit - they do just that. Rover had a special agreement with Honda to supply bodies and engines for the Rover marque.

Here is the thing: Gasoline in the UK is, and has always been, super expensive. So the tendency to go with efficient motors has been ingrained there a lot longer than here. Because of this they release a lot of cars that you and I may enjoy - only they do it in smaller engine sizes and sometimes (Mostly, in fact) diesels. Rover also advertised themselves as selling cars that had more Torque than the usual car found in their class. Which is odd, considering they used Honda motors. My contention is that there are differences in the older Rover SOHC engines that made them better for torque. I had always wanted to find out more about this - but most of my online friends from the UK are sheep buggering homosexual techno freaks and don't do the first goddam thing about a car - Other resources are hard to find because no one builds Rovers for high performance (Well.. not in those years anyway). Also, to my knowledge there is no "Roverswap.co.uk"